Heard on the Hill: Whos Got the Biggest Ball?

There seems to be some debate regarding which House office has the biggest ball of them all.

It seems that early this summer, an intern in the office of Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) decided the random pieces of twine that kept the mail together were going to waste, so she put them good use ... by making a big ball.

So we called Schrader’s chief of staff, Paul Gage, to ask whether their office has a ball and whether theirs is bigger than McKinley’s.

Gage sounds pretty confident that his office has the bigger ball, but he says, “I’d have to see their ball.”

Well, HOH can confirm that Schrader’s office has one big ball.

“Very impressive,” Martin tells HOH after peeping Schrader’s ball. “We have done well with the time we had, and I feel confident in our yarn ball’s future.”

“We applaud Mr. McKinley’s office on their adorable little ball of twine,” Gage says on behalf of his office. “It’s a good start for a first-term office, but they clearly have a way to go before reaching the level of Team Schrader.”

Martin also tells us that the office of Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) has a rubber band ball of considerable size.

DesJarlais Chief of Staff Trent Edwards confirms that the ball exists but declines to speculate on its size as compared with those of the other balls.

“I have seen no other ball,” he tells us, but he says theirs is “bigger than a softball.”